STL Tones Bundle – Complete Guitar & Mixing Collection, Now 83% Off

Guitar software usually forces a choice: one plugin that models everything, or a shelf of single-purpose tools that nickel-and-dime you. The STL Tones Bundle refuses that choice and puts the developer’s whole catalogue on the board at once — AmpHub, ToneHub, ControlHub, Libra and the Tonality series — for $79.99 instead of $499. That is $419 staying in your pocket. STL is an Australian developer with one obsession: taking a dry direct-input guitar signal and turning it into something that sounds tracked through real gear, in a real room, by an engineer who placed the microphone on purpose. Every product in this collection attacks that problem from a different direction, and owning all of them means you pick the workflow that fits the session instead of bending the session to fit the tool.

Two Ways to Build a Tone

AmpHub is the workshop. It assembles a rig the way you would build one on a studio floor: stompboxes in front, an amplifier head, a cabinet, microphones and effects, each stage modelled individually and each one adjustable. If you are the player who rebuilds a rig for every track and wants every parameter exposed, AmpHub is home. Its library of pedals, amps, cabinets, microphones and effects keeps expanding, and it is built to cover any genre you point it at, from clean ambient work to high-gain metal where the wrong cabinet choice can bury a double-tracked rhythm part. ToneHub pulls in the opposite direction. Instead of modelling components, it serves captures of complete rigs — the amp, the cabinet, the microphone and the room frozen into one inseparable snapshot, voiced by working producers. You give up fine-grained control and gain speed: a finished, record-ready guitar sound in a couple of clicks, with no tweaking spiral at two in the morning. Songwriters tracking a scratch idea and players who would rather play than program tend to live in ToneHub. The bundle means both temperaments are covered by the same purchase, and you can prototype in ToneHub, then rebuild the winning sound in AmpHub when a track earns the effort.

The Mixing Side of the Bundle

ControlHub takes the recall philosophy off the guitar and puts it on the mix. It loads, customises and saves complete signal chains in seconds, including chains built by established mixers, so a processing setup you love can be recalled exactly in any session. It can also capture your own outboard hardware, turning a signature hardware sound into something recallable without patching a single cable or re-dialling a single knob. Libra handles one job and handles it in unusual depth: cabinets and microphones. Where most amp plugins let you pick a single impulse response, Libra blends up to eight impulse responses at once, which mirrors how an engineer actually mics a cabinet — two microphones on the grille, a room pair and a direct blend, all balanced against each other. Libra sits after any preamp, so it happily follows third-party amp plugins too, not just STL’s own modelling.

Artist Tones and Everyday Practicalities

The Tonality series turns a single producer’s guitar catalogue into software, and the bundle includes Tonality: Howard Benson, developed exclusively from the signature sounds of the multi-platinum producer. Expansion content rides along as well, including the Chris Lord-Alge Trilogy Preset Pack, created with the five-time Grammy-winning mix engineer. Every suite also ships with a standalone build that runs without a DAW, which matters more than it first sounds: practice, writing and quick tone checks should not require booting a full session and waiting for a project to load. Format coverage is complete — VST2 and VST3 in 64-bit, AU and AAX for Pro Tools — on Windows 10 or later and macOS, with native Apple Silicon support alongside Intel. Licensing runs through the STL Licensing System, with no iLok account required.

Why This Deal Scores So High

Bought separately, this collection is a $499 commitment. At $79.99 it costs less than many single amp plugins, yet it covers the full journey from DI track to finished mix: component modelling when you want control, producer captures when you want speed, whole-chain recall for mixing, a cabinet stage deeper than most rivals manage, and artist-built tones on top. If guitar sits at the centre of your productions, this is exactly the kind of price drop the Deal Board exists to catch.